NMT Essential Functions

The following skills are needed by applicants to the Nuclear Medicine Technology Program. Applicants and students should possess these abilities, or with the help of compensatory techniques and/or assistive devices, be able to demonstrate the ability to become proficient.

Manual dexterity:

Use of extremities for patient care purposes

wrists (both)

grasping

pulling

twisting

hands (both)

fingering

holding

(rotation)

arms (both)

pushing

extending

cutting

Sensation:

palpation

auscultation

percussion

capable of heraring voices of normal range in the presence of background noise